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It's official! While there has been talk of an upcoming algorithm change from Google for at least a couple of months, these past couple of weeks saw a definite change in the way that Google ranks those sites on the web vying for top placement in its listings. So what is the big news? This algorithm specifically went after content farms and in addition to a broad extent low quality sites that have been gaming the system for higher rankings. Since the algorithm targeted content farmers, this algorithm has been nicknamed The Farmer.

Many of us remember the June story with the characters crashing Skype. It was 8 of them and Skype would crash every time (and every time after) you’d receive or send message with that text. By the way, the text was “http://:” - don’t do that at home and if you do, don’t include the quotes. So, the same story with Google Chrome now! Except that it takes 16 characters to crash it. Here we go:http://a/%%30%30Not only when you “paste and go” that link or click on that link, but also when you just put your cursor towards it, you will receive the Chrome crash report.

The bug was discovered and even reported to Google by Twitter user@AndrisAtteka. The original URL string created by Andris was 26 character long, and VentureBeat managed to simplify it to the one you’ve seen above. Thus there surely might be some more links of such type that could be able to crash the Google Chrome Browser.The issue has been reported to Chromium as if abused, the bug could affect many of the Chrome users. No need to worry - Google is working on that now.So, keep calm and try to find even more bugs to make the Internet better!